brooksbp

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by brooksbp 4y ago
> be very careful about betting against incumbent tech Can you elaborate on why you think 'incumbent tech' has anything to do with Amyris stock price? Here's what I see just briefly looking at some numbers and slide decks:
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by brooksbp 4y ago
I pre-ordered the 7th Edition a month before release and it still hasn't shipped. The demand for this new edition is nuts!
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by brooksbp 4y ago
A lot of job descriptions I see are looking for people who already have the scientific formal education background and expect them to do the software engineering aspect too. I haven't really seen generic Software Engineer job descripti
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by brooksbp 4y ago
Why isn't the LoRa PHY spec open source?
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by brooksbp 4y ago
I started my career as a Software Engineer and worked in various domains (packet processing, performance optimization, hardware testing) and recently switched to an FPGA Engineer role. I know what you mean. I am "not good enough"
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by brooksbp 4y ago
Yeah, you are in a rut. If you keep doing what you're doing, you'll stay there. You'll need to be honest with yourself about how much change you're willing to take on and at what pace. Or, you could just stay in your com
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by brooksbp 4y ago
I relate to this. Looking back, the troubled path always provided the most engaging feedback loops, sadly.
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by brooksbp 5y ago
I respectfully disagree to this very common argument against ifdefs, and will also point out that developers who hold this anti-ifdef belief hold it quite strongly! I generally prefer the ifdef-style.
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by brooksbp 5y ago
Right, so this is about supporting legacy hardware. Nobody today is designing a chip with IP that cannot support an AxADDR width that is equal to the architecture's bit width (64 or 32), right? Right? shakes fist in rage
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by brooksbp 5y ago
Wouldn't it be nice if the OS always allocated buffers in an address space that is guaranteed to be accessible by the peripheral device? Wouldn't it be nice if the OS managed an IOMMU so the peripheral device could not access memo
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by brooksbp 5y ago
Wow, this is awesome. Definitely will speed up creating such drawings. Thank you!
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by brooksbp 5y ago
:)
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by brooksbp 5y ago
> is there any reasonable prospect of keeping one's GPU from being able to read and write to literally anywhere in physical memory? This is the purpose of an IOMMU. > I.e., a practical way a kernel and driver might be able to for
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by brooksbp 5y ago
> Yeah, your explanation really hits the nail in regards to what I was trying to understand :) There's a lot of knowledge, and acronyms, and BS out there. E.g. there is no need to discuss PCIe here. It's much easier, and enjoya
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by brooksbp 5y ago
Woah there, my dude. Let's try to understand a simple model first. A CPU can access memory. When a CPU performs loads & stores it initiates transactions containing the address of the memory. Therefore, it is a bus master--it initia
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by brooksbp 5y ago
It's better when you find something you enjoy. Some people don't enjoy what is traditionally presented to them via standard education and upbringing. But if you can branch out, and find something that tickles or scratches that itc
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by brooksbp 5y ago
I feel compelled to offer some advice here. Please hear me out.. I'm pretty socially awkward. I don't have "friends". I don't go to movies. I don't plan lunch dates. I don't host parties. I rarely ask peop
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by brooksbp 5y ago
It gets real fun when "going fast" is less about the software and more about what's happening inside the chip!
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by brooksbp 6y ago
What about "Semantics Engineering with PLT Redex"?
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by brooksbp 6y ago
Even if you know which accesses have a high probability of missing in core or chip cache, it is tricky to write portable software that takes advantage of (switches/branches to other work) the time it takes between prefetch and data ava
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by brooksbp 7y ago
Can you recommend any good textbooks? "The Scientist and Engineer's Guide to Digital Signal Processing" is a bit too verbose and hand wavy for my liking; looking for something more succinct and rigorous.
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by brooksbp 7y ago
I'm reaching for my popcorn while you rage away at this guy.. while my design synths in Vivado..
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by brooksbp 8y ago
> I've already made some comments about rewriting it and the response was basically "ok". Do it. Gradually. Rename. Simplify. Reduce. Enhance. Test. Slice and dice. Embrace the shitiness. Accept it. Own it. It's your
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by brooksbp 8y ago
holy fuck. this is me. .. and half the time i can't tell whether i'm kicking serious ass (rewarded) or causing people trouble (fired)!
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by brooksbp 8y ago
There aren't Ethernet interfaces (transceivers, PCS/PMA, MAC) on the AWS FPGAs?
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by brooksbp 8y ago
Looks quite nice!
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by brooksbp 9y ago
Never.. ever .. catch yourself in a race to the bottom.
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by brooksbp 9y ago
1:1 conversations outside of normal work context can help. Dropping the work context is critical to having a human:human conversation. Most people don't have the heart to do it (for real). If your approach always begins/ends with
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by brooksbp 9y ago
People quit because the modern, zero-loyalty, everyone-for-hire company does not provide a long term strategy for providing intrinsic motivation (autonomy, mastery, purpose); they don't want to pay for retention and therefore don&
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by brooksbp 9y ago
woot!

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